Members

Director

Dr. Zhe He, FAMIA

Faculty Affiliates

Dr. Mia Lustria

Postdoc Scholar

Balu Bhusaran, PhD

  • 07/2023 – Present
  • Topic: TBD

Doctoral Students

Yuanying Pang, MS

  • PhD Student, School of Information, Florida State University
  • Topic: TBD

Forhan Bin Emdad, MS

  • PhD Student, School of Information, Florida State University
  • Topic: TBD

Arslan Erdenasileng, MS

  • PhD Student, Department of Statistics, Florida State University
  • Topic: Clinical Trial Generalizability Assessment

Biyang Yu, MS

  • PhD Candidate in Information Studies, School of Information, Florida State University
  • Topic: Text Mining of Health-Related Online Communities
  • Paper published (N=2): BIBM 2017, JMIR (2020)
  • Poster presented (N=1): ASIS&T 2017

Undergraduate Students

Akhil Shiju

  • Pre-med Student, Florida State University
  • UROP Project: Social Media Data Analysis for Drug Review

Brittney Chang

  • Pre-med Student, Florida State University
  • UROP Project: Understanding Pregnancy-Related Information Seeking Behavior

Elizabeth Steidley

  • Pre-med Student, Florida State University
  • UROP Project: Obesity and Its Health Implications: Assessing the Use of Prescription Medication Among Obese Respondents with National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

Alumni

Aiwen Xing, PhD, MS

  • PhD Student, Department of Statistics, Florida State University
  • Topic: Biostatistical Analysis
  • Paper Published (N=9): BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making (2022), PLOS One (2022), JAMIA Open (2022), JMIR (2020), JMIR (2020), ICHI 2021, AMIA 2021 Informatics Summit
  • First Employment: Merck Co.

Shubo Tian, PhD

  • PhD Student, Department of Statistics, Florida State University
  • Topic: Clinical Trial Generalizability Assessment
  • Papers Published (N=8): Frontier in Psychology (2022), Information Processing and Management (2022), Gerontologist (2022), BIBM 2022, AMIA 2022 Informatics Summit, SEPDA 2021, BCB 2021
  • First Employment: National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), US National Library of Medicine

Laura A. Barrett, MS

  • MS Student in Information Technology, School of Information, Florida State University
  • Topic: Prediction Models for Disease Outcomes; Health Information Seeking
  • Paper Published (N=3): AMIA 2019 Summit; MEDINFO 2019; AMIA 2020 Summit
  • Poster Presented (N=1): MEDINFO 2019
  • First Employment: Florida Department of Health

Seyedeh Neelufar Payrovnaziri, PhD, MS

  • PhD in Information Studies (ABD), School of Information, Florida State University
  • Topic: Explainable AI using EHR for Mortality Prediction for Patients with Cardiovascular Diseases
  • Paper Published (N=7): AMIA 2019 Summit; MEDINFO 2019; AMIA 2020 Summit; IJCNN 2020; JAMIA (2020), JAMIA Open (2021), AMIA 2021 Informatics Summit
  • Poster Presented (N=1): MEDINFO 2019
  • First Employment: Postdoc Scholar at Stanford University School of Medicine

Lynette Gerido, PhD, MPH

Yu Lu, MS

  • Specialist, School of Information, Florida State University
  • Topic: Consumer Health Informatics
  • Paper published (N=4): MEDINFO 2019, JMIR 2020, AMIA 2020, iConference 2021
  • Poster Presented (N=1): MEDINFO 2019

Xiang Tang, MS

  • MS Student, Department of Statistics, Florida State University
  • Topic: Clinical Trial Generalizability Assessment
  • Paper published (N=3): JMIR (2019), Clinical and Translational Science (2020), Sleep Health (2020)
  • First Employment: Associate Statistical Programmer at Boehringer Ingelheim

Zhiwei Chen, MS, Department of Computer Science, Florida State University

Jiwon Lee, PhD, Department of Statistics, Florida State University

  • 08/2016 – 08/2017, Graduate Assistant
  • Topic: Prevalence of Multiple Chronic Conditions in the National Inpatient Sample
  • Paper published (N=1): JMIR (2018)
  • First Employment: Mathematical Statistician at United States Census Bureau, Washington DC

Min Sook Park, PhD, School of Information, Florida State University

  • 08/2015 – 12/2015, Graduate Research Assistant
  • Topic: Analysis of Medical Vocabulary Coverage on Health-Related Social Media
  • Paper published (N=2): JMIR Med Inform (2017), iConference 2016
  • First Employment: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI